Michael Phelps is expected to earn $100 million in his career. His popularity has exploded since his outstanding show at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Speedo, the maker of the new LZR Racer swim skin, is just one of Michael Phelps sponsors which offered Michael $1 million bonus for breaking Mark Spitz’s gold metal record. Michale Phelps was earning an estimated $5 million dollars prior to the 2008 Olympics. Sources are saying that Michael Phelps is going to make around $10 million per year for the next 5 years. Michael Phelps has at last 4 sponsors who are Speedo, Visa, Omega and Matsunichi. Matsunichi is paying Michael an estimated $1 million per year. Kellogg’s has also sealed a multi-million dollar deal with Michael. He will appear on Frosted Flakes and Cordn Flake boxes very soon.

Michael Phelps is on his way to become one of the highest paid athletes in the world. He is already earning an estimated $10 million per year extending til the next Olympics. If Michael Phelps does well in the 2012, his earning will likely double.

Michael Phelps is a 23 year old earning $10 million per year. Can you imagine what that would be like?

Young Golf Phenomenon Michelle Wie Made $19 Million

Usually the very under publicized Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) has seen a recent surge in coverage. There are a few different reasons for this occurrence. Among one of the reasons is because the talent pool is getting deeper on the female tour. Among one of the big names that has helped the LPGA game rise is young phenom Michelle Wie. Michelle is a seventeen year old girl golf sensation that has managed to get national media attention by often times playing in PGA tours.

With all the fame Michelle has seen, she has been able to accumulate quite a large bank account. Michelle took in an estimated $19 million in 2007 from both tour prize money and endorsements. With all the money that Michelle Wie took in last year, she was able to land on the number seventy spot of the Forbes top one hundred celebrity list.

In 2006, Michelle was among the top female golfers in the world. She placed in the top five of three grand slam events, the only other player to accomplish this feat was Tiger Woods, who is the greatest golfer of all time. However, the year 2007 was not so great for the very young lady. Hampered by constant injuries, Michelle was only able to play in a few tournaments. Among the few tournaments she did play in, she played with the men on the PGA. This was probably a bad idea as she failed to make the cut further turning her 2007 season into a disaster. Regardless, Michelle was still able to make $16 million through endorsement deals. She is sponsored by Nike, a source where she makes a huge chunk of that money. In addition to her golf mishaps, numerous fans and peers often criticized Michelle for wearing skimpy and provocative clothing on the course. Fellow golf talents such as Annika Sorenstam often thought of Michelle as a plague to the Ladies professional tour. Michelle simply replied to this criticism by not playing.

Due to her constant struggles last year, Michelle looks to turn her focus to Standford University, where she attends college. The tuition at that school is $32,000, a price she will have little trouble paying. Perhaps a break is necessary for the young golf vixen. She does plan to return to the LPGA and hopefully she will tear the course apart upon he return.

Roger Federer Is Tennis Richest and Most Successful Player

There are numerous sports out there that people love to play for Esther fun or competition. One of these wonderful sports is the great game of tennis. Tennis requires nothing but a couple of rackets, a tennis ball, a court to play on, and a net to put up in the middle of the court. It is so easy to do and really fun to play. Arguably the best tennis player of all time is Roger Federer. He has several records to his name in the sport of tennis and has been able to accumulate a substantial amount of money in the process.

Roger is one of the world´s top athletes and is world renowned for his incredible tennis play. Roger set the record for most consecutive matches won with over eighty in a row. That streak was snapped last year by other tennis sensation Rafael Nadal. With all the winning that Roger does, it is easy to imagine that he makes a substantial amount of money every year. In 2007, Roger was able to rank number thirty eight on the Forbes top one hundred celebrity list of celebrities by taking in over twenty nine million dollars from tournament winnings and endorsements.

Over the course of last season, Roger set the bar as far as tennis performance goes. He won ninety two of ninety seven matches over this extended period of time. He captured three Grand Slam titles along the way. He took an estimated eight point three million dollars, twice as much as runner up Rafael Nadal won on Tour. He also signed sponsorship deals with Gillette and Rolex as well. He also has his own fragrance which puts big bucks into his bank account too. When Roger isn´t winning tennis matches, he is sporting Rolex watches and is shaving with Gillette razors and shaving cream.

Roger has a beautiful home in Oberwil, Switzerland, where he lives with wife Miroslava Vavrinec. She is also a tennis player but she gave up her tennis career when she injured her foot in 2002. When theses two are not at the house and Roger isn´t playing tennis, they like to travel. Roger is fluent in English, French, and German. He considers Swiss German his first language. He has been often spotted in remote vacation spots in Maldives, Dubai, and the Swiss Mountains. Roger is the best tennis player of all time and all the money he makes proves how good he is.

Lebron James Lives Up to His Nickname “King James”

One of the most popular sports in America is the wonderful game of basketball. The National Basketball Association, also known as the NBA, is the professional league of basketball where countless men earn millions of dollars. Unless you have been living under a moldy rock on the east side Compton´s west swamp, then you have heard of Lebron James. Lebron, often times called “King James” or “The Chosen One” has lived up to his incredible hype and has delivered to become one of the top NBA players today. The crazy thing is that Lebron was first exposed to the national spotlight as a sophomore in high school and hasn´t once cracked under the pressure. Now at the tender age of twenty three, Lebron has already lead his team to their first NBA Finals birth in their franchise history and has claimed many records such as the youngest player to record a triple double, record fifty points in a game, and make it on the All NBA Team. With all this success, you would imagine that Lebron makes some huge dollar figures to compensate for his incredible talent.

If you assume Lebron James is one of the richest celebrities on the beautiful face of Planet Earth, you would be assuming correctly. Even before Lebron played his first NBA game, Nike inked him to a ninety million dollar contract. In addition to his Nike contract, Lebron has other sponsors in Sprite, Powerade, Bubbilicious, and Upper Deck. Lebron has been quoted saying that he wants to be the first billionaire athlete in the entire world and become a global icon. Lebron is already a global icon and is well on his way to becoming the first billionaire athlete.

If Lebron played baseball and was as talented as he is in basketball, he would demand Alex Rodriguez figures if not more. This basically means that Lebron would be making over twenty five million a year just from his contract. Too bad basketball has a salary cap and Lebron is only getting paid less than half that a year. Regardless, Lebron took home over twenty seven million dollars last year an has been busy spending ever since.

Once Lebron made it to the NBA, he bought every one on his high school basketball team a brand spanking new car. He recently treated himself to a thirty five thousand square foot home just outside of Cleveland which includes a bowling alley, a barbershop, and casino. The weird thing about this home is that he didn´t include a basketball court. Go figure huh? Lebron has plenty of money to spend on anything he would ever so desire.

Kobe Bryant Has Recovered Very Well Since His Rape Case

Kobe Bryant has been commonly compared to Michael Jordan for his incredible basketball talent. Not only has Kobe garnered multiple championship rings, just like MJ, but he has also won scoring titles and a NBA most valuable award. Another way many people compare Kobe Bryant to the greatest basketball player of all time, is by how much money they make. Kobe Bryant is today´s version of Michael Jordan not just on the basketball court but outside of that as well.

Kobe Bryant is signed onto a six year seventy one million dollar deal with the Los Angeles Lakers and nets about thirty one million dollars a year including endorsements. Kobe´s reputation was strongly damaged after a nineteen year old girl claimed that he had sexually assaulted her in 2003. Kobe not only lost all of his endorsement deals at the time, he also lost a huge portion of his fans. However, since the unfortunate incident where all the charges were dropped, Kobe has rebounded very nicely and now has multiple endorsement deals again, most notably with Nike. While Kobe seems to have regained his reputation as a tremendous basketball player and person, he has been raking in the dollar bills as well.

Kobe Bryant makes enough money every year to be able to buy virtually anything he wants. After he was accused of raping the nineteen year old girl, he bought his wife Vanessa a four million dollar diamond ring as an apology. She graciously accepted. In addition to buying this ring for his wife, Kobe also bought a thirteen point five million dollar home for the two to live in. Kobe´s home is in a gated community in Orange County and ranks as one of the most expensive houses ever bought in that area. The nine point five acre property Kobe bought includes a sixteen thousand square foot main house and a two thousand square foot guest house. The main house includes ten bedrooms, thirteen and a half bathrooms, a theater, a game room, and a billiard room.

Kobe Bryant is quite possibly the best basketball player in the NBA today. He is currently in the second year of his seventy one million dollar contract. In addition to his contract, his endorsement deals pay him multiple millions every year as well. With all the money Kobe makes, he can afford to give his wife a a few more diamond rings.